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ID number:  BIRBI-B2282
Object type:  Coin
Institution:  The Barber Institute of Fine Arts
Named collection:  P. D. Whitting Collection
Collector:  Whitting, Philip D.
Maker:  Maurice; Antioch
Denomination:  Decanummium
Place made:  Eurasia: Antioch
Culture:  Byzantine
Date made:  596-597
Metal:  Base Metal
Diameter (cm):  1.75
Weight (g):  2.78
Axis (degrees):  180.00
Provenance:  Whitting 1858.
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Description:  Obverse: Bust of Maurice facing, wearing trefoil crown with pendilia, chlamys, with loros scarf draped over shoulders, holding mappa aloft in r. hand, and eagle-topped sceptre in l. hand. Reverse: I, cross above.

Inscriptions:  Obverse: ∂ N mAU CN P [ligature above] AU (Our lord Maurice, eternal Augustus). Reverse: ANNO XЧ (Year 15). Mint mark: τHEUP'.

Bibliography:  MIB II 102C

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Whitting, Philip David
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